The “what” is a dynamic data center infrastructure. Cloud is “how” to get there. 

Admist the chatter and sound bites on Twitter coming from Cloud Connect this week are some interesting side conversations revolving around architecture and how cloud may or may not change the premises upon which those architectures are based. Architecture is, in the technology demesne, the “fundamental underlying design of computer hardware, software, or both.” A data center architecture is the design of a data center, the underlying fundamental way in which compute, network and storage resources are provisioned and ultimately delivered to support the goal of delivering applications. Of supporting the business. But note that “cloud” is not the goal, it’s not what we’re hoping to achieve, it’s how we’re hoping to achieve.

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